marine sniper hunting deer

[David]

Well done, Dave! That's a fine little Girene you've got there.

[Seismic Sam]

What was the guy using? At that range, the loss of ballistic energy must be huge, even for a hugely powered round!

.338 Edge

http://www.snipersparadise.com/articles/338edge.htm

It's a Remington .300UltraMag Necked up to a .338

There's a guy at Oakdale shooting one of these in the Unlimited Bench class. As far as the performance of either the .338 Edge or .338 Ultramag (which I own), one of the contributing factors is the rather awesome BC of the Sierra 300 grain Matchking bullet, which is a mind boggling .768!! While the trajectory of the 300, 250, or 200 bullets is NOT hugely different, the retained energy is. A 300 grain MK going 2750 FPS has the same ft-lbs at 700 yards as a 30-06 at the muzzle. (!!!) At 1000 yards, the bullet still has 1900 ft-lbs., which is plenty for a deer.

With a .338 Edge pushing the 300 grain bullet at 2950 FPS, you have 2270 ft-lbs. at 1000 yards. If you gun will do three tenths at 100 yards, (and mine will) it will group 3" at 1000, provided you dope out all the conditions, which is the hard part (that I can't do, but I'm sure HammAR can). Being able to print a 3" group on a deer means bambi is gonna be dead almost all of the time with 2,000 ft-lbs hitting it. I mean, compare that power and group size to shooting a deer with a 10mm at 50 yards, where all you have to work with is 600 ft-lbs at the muzzle.

BTW - the 300 Matchking is the same size as a .223 case!!

[hammAR]

Sam, speaking of "doping" for 1,000 yds, you need to read this....449-36x:

National Shooting Record Set (Twice?)
10/20/2008 By Gunnery Sgt. Julia Watson ,

PHOENIX — Imagine setting a new national record, shooting from 800, 900, and 1,000 yards without a scope on your rifle, only to find out that you must fire the course again. This is exactly what happened to Gunnery Sgt. Justin Skaret during the Arizona State Long Range Palma Championships in November 2007.

The Palma Trophy Match is shot in three stages of slow fire in the prone position using an iron-sighted .308-caliber rifle with a 155-grain bullet. Competitors aim for targets that have a 20-inch bull’s eye 800, 900, and 1,000 yards away.

The rest of the article is at: http://www.marines.mil/units/marforres/Pages/NationalShootingRecordSet(Twice).aspx

[EAJuggalo]

Gunny, All I get from the link is the HTML code.

[hammAR]

Try it again..................fixed it....................